Holy Toledo!Follow

Wow! I think all those people who have been saying they were coming from WoW and FFXI (whatever?) did it this weekend. I was shocked at the number of people running around in the Freeport newb zones. At one point in the Graveyard I had a hard time finding mobs to kill and decided to come back later.

To all of you who are just now joining us in EQ II or rejoining us, welcome.

Zoo

I've noticed this too.

I think the rave review of KoS and the development of EQ2 in general since launch may have something to do with the influx.

OBD, that trio may have been farmers. I ran into a group of them in Antonica this weekend. 4 toons with obviously random names, a berzerker, 2 wizards and a warden. All level 10. The 3 casters were autofollowing on the berzerker. They tried to kill a named crab on the southern beach, and were obviously overmatched at level 10. The berzerker got killed fast, the other three just stood there and died.

I killed their crab myself (my monk alt, yes it was still green to me) and got a nice chest with a good weapon and an Adept I. They were back on the beach as soon as I killed it. They didn't say anything.

Did SOE ban a lot of farmers recently? Are the all out leveling new toons now?

I came back this weekend and found out I had some Veteran Rewards for like a year :D

Made a Wood Elf Beserker on Permafrost, I have to say the class is pretty fun :)
I got 4x Rough Coral in a day and have around 45 Gold at level 15. I'm really enjoying the game thus far and I might keep playing.

If it's the same guy I'm thinking of, the gnoll armorer or something. I've killed him a few times with various alts. The first time I did he dropped a master chest (Master I spell, Adept I spell and a rare raw).

Any named has a slim chance of dropping fabled items. Even solo nameds, though it's very slim chance with them.

I was with a group killing group nameds down in StormHold recently, and I think they drop master chests every time now.

The guy I'm talking about is a gnome who is part of the smash the machines quest up on level 3, (not the correct name). he is a solo target and stands in a small camp of gnolls over near the aqua-golems (again, not their correct name). Anyway, you blow up several of his machines and it ticks him off.

You smack him around for the update and move on! We stood there watching this trio kill him several times and he never appeared to drop anything, (no chests and they never bothered to loot him - just waited for the corpse to disappear and re-pop.) When my friend and I finally got a chance at him, he dropped nothing.

About 2 weeks ago or so when I started playing it was close to that, only reverse the high and medium. Like 5 or so were High and the rest were Medium. Only time i've seen any server "Low" is when it is like middle of the night pretty much.

Anyways, it does seem like there have been a bunch of new players recently... and sadly it seems that 90% of them or more lack any kind of manners.

I think it could be a combination of both the people joining for the summer due to gifts and such (No matter what MMO i've played there is ALWAYS a influx of new players in the summer due to no school for all the kiddies) and possible plat sellers trying to rebuild some. Yesterday I got a tell from someone who was very likely a plat seller saying "I've got lots of gold, tell me if you want some." or something to that extent. So since SOE is cracking down on them hardcore from what I can tell, probably quite a few chars needing to be rebuilt on new accounts and such, and it aint like they don't got the money for as many new accounts as they need....

I agree that most players in WoW are ruder and less mature than in EQII, and playing that game I expected to see that behavior. When I came to this game, I realized that it WAS more mature-and came to expect maturer behavior.

But just because you have come to expect 'good' behavior from a variety of people there, doesn't mean every newbie who rolls of the Isle is going to be nice-and if they arent, they dont have to be from WoW or 'kiddies'

I hate that kind of thing, most people I meet on MMO's believe that *almost every* 12, 13, 14 year old are immature and rude. And some of the time that is true, but lots of 12,13,14 year olds act and say that they are older(and maturer) BECAUSE once people know(or think) that they are younger, they start to look down upon them. I can't count how many times I have had a guild, friend or groupy turn away from me just because I let one thing slip, they find out Im 13, and just instantly hate and look down on me because of that.

Bottom line- Dont compare age/previous experiences(WoW for instance) with how mature the person is. It's just those few people who act very childish that give us all a bad name.

((Hey, I finally hit 100 Posts =D ))

Edited, Wed May 31 20:00:09 2006 by GodOrDevil

when I was a GL in EQ1, I had one officer who was so mature and articulate, that I automatically assumed he was in his late 20's, early 30's. I found out he was only 14. No one in our guild ever treated him differently except to let it be known we loved having him as part of our ranks and was a true asset to the guild. To this day, I still chat with him frequently via yahoo and myspace and we try to game together on other games. I never look at the "age" factor, but the maturity level. Being an adult does not automatically give you maturity. And vice versa to teens

Edited, Thu Jun 1 17:21:01 2006 by DSD